Riot Games

Sr. Principal Insights Analyst - Central Product Insights

Riot Games$224K — $337K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or related field
  • 10+ years of analytics experience, with advanced degrees accounting for up to 2 years
  • 3+ years of direct experience in game analytics
  • Strong skills in Tableau, SQL, Python/Pyspark
  • Familiarity with game design and product strategy
  • Ability to synthesize and communicate analytical findings effectively
  • Excellent interpersonal skills for collaboration across departments

Responsibilities

  • Analyze complex game analytics challenges across Riot's portfolio
  • Develop scalable analytics tools and dashboards in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Mentor and guide game analysts within and outside of CPI
  • Drive standardization and efficiency in analytics reporting
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering to optimize data infrastructure
  • Ensure adherence to game analytics standards across the portfolio
  • Enhance tools and processes for analyst efficiency
  • Support game leadership in staffing and workforce management

Benefits

  • Open paid time off policy
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave for employees and families
  • 401k with company match
Full Job Description
Sr. Principal Insights Analyst on Central Product Insights (CPI), you will leverage deep expertise in game analytics to help our games deeply understand their products & players and to level up this craft across the portfolio of games at Riot. You9ll partner with leaders on game teams across the portfolio and lifecycle as well as executives overseeing Riot9s entire games portfolio. You9ll conduct a wide range of complex analyses to help us understand the health of our products, players, and game experiences either individually or in partnership with analysts on game teams. You9ll build and manage scaled analytics tools, dashboards, and datasets that empower stakeholders across Riot9s entire portfolio. You9ll also help to define and elevate craft standards across the portfolio and guide discipline investments to help unlock the full capacity of analysts working on games.

Responsibilities:
  • Tackle the most complex & impactful game analytics problems across the Riot Games portfolio including foundational cross-game analytics, product health deep dives, and investigations into multi-game player behaviors and patterns
  • Lead the development of new, scaled analytics-based insights tools, dashboards, and datasets focusing on common game behaviors and play patterns, in collaboration with stakeholder needs across the portfolio and central executive leadership
  • Mentor and develop game analysts, both on CPI and across the portfolio
  • Work with central and game teams to drive consistency and/or efficiency in key reports, recurring or one-off analyses, and shared design/strategy analytic lenses
  • Partner closely with Data Engineering to productionalize central analytics tables and pulls, and to guide the ongoing development of central data infrastructure meant to serve the needs of game analysts
  • Uphold game analytics craft standards across the portfolio, ensuring rigor and consistency / comparability
  • Drive improvements on tools & processes to maximize analysts9 efficiency and effectiveness across the portfolio
  • Support game leadership on staffing and workforce management for game analytics across the portfolio
  • Partner with insights leadership to ensure the craft of game analytics is well-supported across Riot overall

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor9s degree in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics or a related discipline
  • 10+ years of relevant analytics experience (an advanced degree can account for up to 2 years of experience)
  • 3+ years experience working directly in analytics on games
  • Strong analytical skills across the entire stack (Tableau, SQL, Python/Pyspark)
  • Meaningful familiarity with game design/direction and product strategy
  • Experience conducting analytics to answer product or portfolio strategy questions
  • Experience synthesizing & socializing analytics results and distilling results into impactful recommendations for product/executive leadership
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills along with the strong ability to collaborate effectively at all levels and departments of the organization.
  • Able to work independently and lead complex projects which require coordinating multi-party worksteams
  • Ability to own and drive workstreams collaboratively with cross functional partners across game design, engineering, data engineering, and product
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with senior stakeholders

Desired Qualifications:
  • Experience working with competitive PvP titles
  • Experience setting up automation for data pulls or pipelines
  • Experience developing and deploying advanced statistical or machine learning models
  • Advanced degree in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Management Information Systems, a related discipline, or comparable work experiences

For this role, you9ll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players9 experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

  • (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $224,800.00 - $337,700.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

About Riot Games

Riot Games is a video game developer and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and is best known for its flagship game, League of Legends. The game has become one of the most popular esports titles in the world, with millions of players and fans around the globe. Riot Games is committed to creating high-quality, immersive gaming experiences that bring people together and foster a sense of community. The company is also dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the gaming industry, and has launched several initiatives to support underrepresented groups.
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